[egenix-users] egenix experimental installation error

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When running "python setup.py install" in 
> "egenix-mx-experimental-0.6.0" as root, mxNumber complains that it 
> can't find "gmp.h".

That's fixed in the latest beta of 0.7.0 (see the mailing list
archive for download links). Building of mxNumber is made optional
in those versions and the package should build without mxNumber
if you don't have GMP installed.

> I actually only need mxTidy (not mxNumber) so if there is some option 
> to leave out mxNumber, that would be great.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> I'm running Mandrake 8.1 (Linux 2.4.8-26mdk) and Python 2.2.1. More 
> details:
> 
> [root at workstation egenix-mx-experimental-0.6.0]# python setup.py install
> running install
> running build
> running build_py
> ...
> running build_ext
> skipping 'mx.Tidy.mxTidy.mxTidy' extension (up-to-date)
> skipping 'mx.URL.mxURL.mxURL' extension (up-to-date)
> skipping 'mx.UID.mxUID.mxUID' extension (up-to-date)
> building 'mx.Number.mxNumber.mxNumber' extension
> gcc -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC 
> -Imx/Number/mxNumber -I/usr/include/python2.2 -c 
> mx/Number/mxNumber/mxNumber.c -o 
> build/temp.linux-i686-2.2/mx/Number/mxNumber/mxNumber/mxNumber.o
> In file included from mx/Number/mxNumber/mxNumber.c:24:
> mx/Number/mxNumber/mxNumber.h:33:17: gmp.h: No such file or directory
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> 
> 
> -Chuck
> 
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